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Molecules: Nucleation, Aggregation and Crystallization: Beyond Medical and Other Implications

Molecules: Nucleation, Aggregation and Crystallization: Beyond Medical and Other Implications

Sedzik, Jan
Riccio, Paolo

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Medical ReferenceBiologyChemistry

ISBN10: 9812832645
ISBN13: 9789812832641
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: May 5 2009
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This volume, dealing with Nucleation, Aggregation and Crystallization, consists of a compilation of lectures offered at the international course held at Karolinska Institute and at the scientific meetings of the MARIE Network.

The word nucleation, derived from nuclear family, refers to the concept of the progenitor, or the mother and the father of any family. Only in the last few centuries have physicists borrowed the word, and more recently, biologists for Theodor Schwann's cell theory. Most recently, the term has come into use in atomic theory, spectroscopy, and radioactivity, as well as in the fields of atomic bombs, fission, and fusion. Nucleation as a physicochemical process is followed by two poorly understood phenomena -- aggregation and crystallization - which underlie disorders like Alzheimer's and mad-cow disease (aggregation of amyloid plaque), cardiovascular diseases (deposition in coronary vessels of cholesterol and lipids), and the appearance of crystals under physiological conditions (gout, silicoses, and liver or kidney stones).

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